Rehosted and hotlinked webcomics will be removed, unless you are the creator. Please submit a link to the original comic's site, and possibly a mirror in the comments. Tumblr-exclusive comics are the exception, and may be rehosted, however if the artist's name or watermark are removed, the post will be removed. (*)(*)

14. No SMS or Social Media Content (including Reddit)

This includes direct linking to reddit threads, reddit comments, other subreddits, facebook profiles, twitter profiles, tweets, embedded tweets, and screenshots of the above, including text messages, omegle, instagram and others. This also includes any other sites that may be considered social network sites. Please read the announcement.

Hate speech and bigotry will be removed at the moderators' discretion.

Serial reposters will be banned.

Bots and bot-like accounts are not allowed

What do I do if I see a post that breaks the rules?

Click on the report button, and send us a message with a link to the comments of the post.

What should I do if I don't see my post in the new queue?

If your submission isn't showing up, please don't just delete it as that makes the filter hate you! Instead send us a message with a link to the post. We'll unban it and it should get better. Please allow 10 minutes for the post to appear before messaging moderators

The only difference I see between either site is that reddit allows you to make your own subreddits, and all the really creepy ones are hidden from the general public instead of being what the site is known for.

Honestly, it just seems to come up occasionally. Someone will create an AskReddit asking about unique or interesting reddits, and the next thing you know, you're looking at /r/spacedicks or /r/clopclop.

That entire shitstorm was the most fun I've ever had on reddit. People were throwing essay-long comments left and right about how THE MAN is taking away their RIGHT to post creepy pictures of under-age girls on the internet without their knowledge or consent.

It was like a crash at NASCAR, but instead of just a few seconds it lasted weeks on end. Beautiful and horrible all at once.

That policy on 4chan is completely useless given how 4chan works - the newest stuff is always on top, doesn't matter if it gets deleted 5 minutes later according to policy.

And reddit never allowed CP -- actual CP, the kind that popped up (in thumbnails) each of the two times I went to /b/ to see what's so great about it. (My impression: nothing is great about it)

Reddit allowed clothed pictures of teenagers. Creepy, and invasion of privacy? Yes. Should it have been shut down? IMHO yes, it shouldn't have existed in the first place! CP? No.

The only thing that came even close to CP, was that preteen subreddit which existed for three weeks. In that huge askreddit thread about it, a cop who had to investigate CP before in his career asked for examples of CP there, nobody could find any! The closest they got (topless girl?) was apparently from a movie that is legal in the US, aka you could buy it in a store if you were into that shit!

So no. There was no CP on reddit, not in any meaningful way. And from the little I've seen of 4chan, there is a shitload of CP there. That policy is just for covering their asses.

It was pretty fucked up. The one I saw had this guy posting pictures of his young-ass ex girlfriend, then saying he also had nudes, and then just a WALL of "pm sent"s in response. There were other examples too, if I remember right.

There has never been child porn on Reddit. Suggestive pictures of underage children in swimsuits or lolita comics might be creepy, but they're not illegal. In fact, even non-suggestive pictures of naked kids are legal, eg nudism sites.

I've usually found that those who comment on how bad 4chan is in comparison to other image boards have never actually been to 4chan. Once you get past it's shitty design you can learn quite a few things from it.

That's the truest line. Reddit is full of people who hate reddit, and who have the strangest prejudices about all those "other redditors".

I'm still not sure how much of it is projection -- e.g. ugly basement dwellers thinking that everyone else here must also be an ugly basement dwellers.

Or if half the people here are just really bad at getting jokes, or at following discussions without identifying arguments with the people who try to play them through for fun, and those people with "all redditors".

Or maybe it's like a guy with a small dick "accusing" everyone else of having a small penis so people will assume he has a big one...

I think it's a result of the existence of subreddits. It allows territories to be staked out, groups to define themselves, and politics to happen, much more than the Whole Sort Of General Mish-Mash that is 4chan.

/r/circlejerk, /r/bestof, and /r/shitredditsays (among many others) comment on Reddit itself, which is already a good way to start drawing lines between "Us" and "Them", even within Reddit. Then you can have inter-subreddit drama and battle lines being drawn. Moderators abuse their power, which is very easy when technically anyone can become a moderator in five minutes; and the admins have a strict policy of not intervening.

In 4chan, on the other hand, the different boards rarely interact directly, everyone's anonymous so there's no karma-whoring or any other e-peen to fight over, nor are there any specific targets to attack (at least, within 4chan). And there's no equivalent to /r/circlejerk or any of the meta-reddits, so everyone's a lot more unified.

(Mind you, there's a lot more trolling at the individual level on 4chan, but there are no "sides".)

Wow, that is harrowing. I'd figured that some girls must have been really upset by seeing their photos online, but putting it alongside the shitbird rapey comments and hearing how she dropped out of school and became depressed really makes it hit home.

I really would like you to explain to me how hacking and harassing a girl who doesn't even know how to drive because our society thinks she's attractive is acceptable in your eyes though. Let alone a woman who's above 18.

If anyone's really curious: I have you tagged as "Requests Child Pornography on the Internet" because you once requested to be pm'ed pornographic images of underage girls in /r/jailbait in the huge mess of shit that finally got the admins to crack down on /r/jailbait (several months before they finally got around to instituting the actual site-wide ban on child pornography)

Why would I want to defend a schizophrenic, or a depressed person? Because their illness is not their fault.

It would be cool if we could fix pedophilia, and I think that pedophiles that never touched a kid would be happy to be fixed, but can we fix homosexuality the same way? No. Sexual orientation can't be "cured".

there is a large difference between pedophiles and ephebophiles as well. the former are attracted to toddlers and the like. it's unnatural and sick. always was. the latter are attracted to teenagers who have already hit puberty, as such, nature decided they are already mature enough to breed. it is anything but unnatural.

I am not attracted to illegal girls. Or boys for that matter. I do not want age of consent to be moved.

Assuming every pedophile just can't wait to rape all the little girls and boys is exactly like assuming every homosexual just can't wait to rape boys and men.

Have you ever heard confessions of actual pedophiles? How much they suffer? How they hate themselves every day for being born with a sexual desire with the only way to express it - to hurt children? Do you think they don't hate themselves for it every single day?

Do we need to give them any more hatred and mockery?

I am defending those people not because I am one. I am defending them because I am human, and, as such, I have things like genuine compassion.

You want to hate and ostracize and lock up and lynch people for crimes they never committed? None of you do.

A.) Schizophrenics and depressed people can easily reintegrate into society with good treatment and counseling. A pedophile cannot. Even with the greatest therapy, they'll never fully be "Well". They'll never be able to be around children.

B.) Pedophillia isn't a sexual orientation, it's a paraphilla. Homosexuality is a sexual orientation, so it cannot be cured.

C.) Pedophillia and ephebophilles are not hugely different. You know what the main difference is? Only the age, and they often overlap depending on when puberty sets in.

D.) Pedophiles who believe that their problem is just orientation almost always go on to molest a child. It's almost like clockwork, and is a terrible thing.

People need to be loved, respected, and helped the best they can. However pedophilia is a terrible mental illness that hurts society, therefor it must be treated with serious concern. You can never empaphise with pedophilia, it only enables the disease.

Because the worlds cruel, because modern psychology has explored that a pedophile around a child is a bad idea, Homosexuality is something practiced between two people capable of consenting therefor isn't a paraphilla, puberty can onset in a wide variety of ages and Ephebophilia is not just sexual attraction but preference so you must not only find them attractive but perfer them over a woman who would be older.

Despite it all, you cannot compare homosexuality and pedophilia. It does-not-work.

modern psychology has explored that a pedophile around a child is a bad idea

At one point modern psychology has explored that masturbation rots your brain.

Homosexuality is something practiced between two people capable of consenting therefor isn't a paraphilla

it doesn't work like that. Homosexuality was a paraphilia before, before homosexuals asked it to be changed. Sexual sadism and masochism are paraphilias despite it being possible to be practiced between consenting adults.

Being attracted to 16 year old girls was normal before, but is not normal now, is it now paraphilia despite no biological differencies?

Despite it all, you cannot compare homosexuality and pedophilia. It does-not-work.

You know what? I thought /r/jailbait was absolutely disgusting and an embarrassment to this site. It is a testament to how it needed to go that people care so much about defending it and have such creepy things to say about it.

You know what else? The way you keep using the word "children" to describe girls in their late teens is dishonest, and you are flagrantly stupid if you don't understand the distinction between ephebophilia and pedophilia.

EDIT

Just going to paste this here so that I don't have to individually respond to each bout of mindless chanting:

Generally, the preference is not regarded by psychologists as a pathology when it does not interfere with other major areas of one's life, and is not listed by name as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition, Text Revision (DSM-IV-TR), the ICD-10, or as a paraphilia.

Source: wikipedia.

Of course, I doubt this will educate any of you, as this should already be clear to anyone who engages in 5 seconds of unprejudiced thought.

Nope, not all loathesome predators are pedophiles, but all pedophiles are loathesome predators, same as ephebophiles or whatever you call yourselves. It's like the squares vs rectangles thing. Regardless, nothing about the these people fails to be disgusting.

If you're using "normal" to mean "natural," then sure, that's true, but so is psychopathy or diabetes. Pedophilia should be treated, much like one would treat a mental or physical disease (I would argue, as do majority psychologists, that pedophilia (ephebophilia, whatever the hell you want to call it) is a mental disease).

If you mean "normal" as in "normative", then no, pedophilia isn't considered normal anywhere except for places like reddit. Talk to the even the most marginally progressive liberal and they'll be totally on board with gay marriage and such, but you have to find some serious logical gymnasts to see someone defend pedophilia.

I've been "featured" a few times and I still don't understand what it is. It seems to be a hive of hyper-politically correct people that are hell-bent on overreacting and taking things out of context. I seriously have no idea what drives them. The way they react is so childish and so arrogant that they almost have to be trolls, but it all seems so serious. They hide behind the excuse that it's just a circlejerk but (inadvertently) they summon downvote squads or worse, harass people in real life. I'm pretty sure they killed a guy too.

Reddit is 4chan for pussies. people here get too butthurt and cry way too often. And actually, there are a lot of 4chan users who denounce the posting of CP. It's not as popular there as you might thing